The Gencompress Utility

GENESIS user Cengiz Gunay (cgunay at emory dot edu) has contributed the utility "Gencompress" that can achieve average 10:1 compression ratios for intracellular voltage traces recorded from GENESIS simulations. It can operate on files created with the disk_out method.

While the compression is lossless, the data is initially truncated to 16-bit resolution. The FLAC lossless audio codec (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) is adapted to achieve this performance.

Download one of the following packages:

• gencompress-1.0b.i686.tar.gz - binary package for i686 Linux
• gencompress-1.0b.x86_64.tar.gz - binary package for x86_64 Linux
• gencompress-1.0b.src.tar.gz - Source package for all others

Further information is contained in the file README.dist, and at the website http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~cgunay/pandora/. This site also contains Pandora, a Matlab Toolbox that makes database management accessible from your electrophysiology project.